This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe is a simple brown sugar cake made a little fancy with some caramelized rhubarb on top (Rhubarb Upside Down Brown Sugar Cake, pp 24-25). Luckily for me, the first rhubarb just started showing up in the farmers’ markets and the other week I was able to get my hands […]

SO, um, canelés. Or should it be cannelés? (Those little cakes with a crunchy caramelized exterior and a custardy interior). No matter how you spell them, I’ve made them before, right? A couple of times… I will also admit to eating a LOT of canelés over the summer of 2014 in France (my favourite ones […]

This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe is a simple white cupcake with a surprise inside! A dollop of Nutella (or, in my case, chocolate peanut butter spread) hidden inside a light and fluffy white cupcake… Topped with a blob of melted chocolate… Irresistible. Apparently. These were snapped up by my neighbours as I was out […]

Nutella. It’s been a guilty pleasure of mine ever since I was a child. I still remember my first taste – I must have been about 8 years old and we came across it at the local deli – a deli in the true sense of the word – very exotic at the time and […]

Here we are. The last dessert I’ll be baking with the French Fridays with Dorie group. What started as a project I said I would take part in “when time permits” in October 2010 became a weekly assignment. Recipes I couldn’t wait to try (mostly). A group of friends. A lot of learning and fun. […]

I’m sorry. This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe was just not a winner with me. When I saw “coconut tapioca” my heart fell. I’m already not a huge fan of rice pudding so tapioca didn’t sound too promising. And then Dorie even admitted that it was the “dreaded dessert” at the school cafeteria when she […]